..but I am getting really sick of this move to more and more graphical interfaces for everything.
... which is why text-based applications like mutt won't go away for a long time. As long as there are people who share your sentiments (such as myself), then you'll always have choices like mutt, lynx, or even bash.
Don't feel threatened by the onslaught of GUI apps and their growing popularity. People are very interested and anxious for Nautilus, Evolution, Konqueror, KOffice, etc. The point is, in the end, we'll all have our choices. And that's a good thing.
My job is system and network administration on the campus of a local university. I would be the one to recommend to my boss about these types of policies (and ultimately I think the final say would be mine).
Personally, I feel that this _is_ a matter of censorship. Furthermore, banning sites and blocking ports is a futile attempt. Students are resourceful. They will find some way around it (proxies, say), or someone else who knows. Once one student knows a way around it, the whole campus knows.
Recently our uplink set a packet filter blocking all packats to napster.com. I lobbied against this, and stressed that this wasn't a solution to the problem. Blocking content _is_ censorship. While I am sympathetic to the problem, censoring people is simply wrong. The filter was dropped a few days later; I hope my arguments had a hand in persuading them.:)
I currently impose bandwidth throttling on the interface that connects to our campus residence. This seems to work reasonably well and I would recommend this to any network admin over packet filtering.
It's really hard to give your servers meaningful names and still keep within a scheme, so I've more or less given up.:)
At home, my machines are named after galaxies. Right now I'm using orion (which seems to be very popular on the net), and andromeda. I mostly chose this scheme because it sounds cool. Originally I named them after planets (Jupiter One and Saturn) and each harddrive on them was mounted under names for their respective moons (atlas, titan, europa, callisto, etc.).
At work, our servers are named after birds. We're using eagle, thunderbird, raven, and falcon right now. Unfortunately, our web server is just "www" and our name server is "ns." This scheme was actually imposed not by us (the IT department) but by upper management. Our school has was founded by (and is still partially government funded by) natives, and so management wanted to retain some of that "feel." We just rolled in a new NT server who someone on staff wanted to call Phoenix. I said, "there's no way I'm going to give an NT server a cool name like Phoenix.":)
A friend of mine names all his servers after the seven dwarfs. This is probably the most interesting convention I've seen, and you can give your servers meaningful names. An NT server would be dopey. Solaris server would be grumpy. Novell server would be sneezy. Linux server would of course be Doc.:)
So, it's difficult (but probably not impossible) to come up with fun and meaningful names, but I've given up on that. Just give your servers entertaining names and don't worry about making sure they mean anything. You'll remember that foobar is your name server, and the new guy will learn that too.:)
I maintain that it is better to install isolated patches as opposed to one huge monolithic upgrade (as in service packs).
I don't mind upgrading an FTP or bind (or whatever) RPM on my servers, but I absolutely will not install an NT service pack on a production server until waiting at least a month to see what kind of problems arise. I made the horrible mistake of installing SP4 on one of our NT servers. Never again.
It seems to me that a simple enough fix is to have a CORBA method (say, reloadMenu) in the Panel interface. You could have a simple command line utility to call this (RPMs would use this for post-install, for instance).
I think he meant that it was backwards in that crackers are more commonly known as malicious hackers (at least as far as the media is concerned), rather than vice versa.
Okay, I am not quite happy with the death sentence and this is probably an understatement. But now how do you know a 13 year old would know ? I guess you know all 13 years old yourself or what ?
Actually I know quite a few 13-year-olds, and even younger. And I remember quite clearly what I knew when I was 13, and also what my friends at that age knew. Simply, I've not met a 13-year-old who didn't have at least a somewhat informed idea of what sex was. I'm not saying there doesn't exist one; I'd definitely be wrong. Just as I'd be wrong in saying all 16-year-olds (which is the AOC in many states) have a clear idea of what sex is.
Don't misunderstand; we do need these laws to protect people from the real predators. But realize that these numbers _are_ arbitrary. There is no real difference between 14 and 15, or between 15 and 16, or between 12 and 13. Lawmakers have the difficult (read: impossible) task of picking an age that is acceptable to society in both a restrictive and permissive point of view. (In other words, not too young, and not too old.)
Ahh, quite right. In particular I missed 30-9-11 F.
Anyway, my question was entirely academic, and I could have used [insert fictional state where AOC is It's interesting and even a bit startling to note how widely the AOC varies from place to place. In Canada, where we are very Americanized, the age of consent is 14, which is much lower than most states. There is also a fairly significant philosophical implication here, as well: lawmakers pick arbitrary numbers that are used to define society's code of ethics.
Do you honestly feel he deserves a death sentence for this?
He didn't actually have sex with a minor, so the only crime he truly did commit was possessing chld pornopgraphy. (The law may see committing and intent to commit the same [?], but I don't; his conscience may have gotten the better of him and he may have backed out at the last minute, given the chance.)
Furthermore, his sexual intentions were no secret. In otherwords, the "13-year-old" knew what she was getting into. I argue that is consent. That means the crime he intended to commit was statutory rape. If this had taken place in a state where the age of consent is 13 (New Mexico), would this still be a crime?
Clearly he committed crimes, and will be punished according to the law. But your implication that he deserves a death sentence (as is the case by letting word get out in prison) disgusts me.
But many states (FL, NV, others) have already outlawed the production, import, and sale of such media.
It is the same here in Canada, too.
In fact, it is worse and much more twisted than that. The age of consent in Canada is 14. However, the depiction of anyone under 18 in a sexual act is considered child pornography. This means I can legally have sex with a 14-year-old, but if I write about it in my diary, I am, according to the law, in possession of child pornography.
Orwell wasn't too far off. This next step -- and it's not a very big one -- is the Thought Police. It scares the hell out of me.
Forgive the offtopicness of this post, but I couldn't resist the rant.
Important for intranets, Linux now supports IP tunneling, which lets you configure a machine to belong to a network different from the one to which it is physically attached.
IPIP encapsulation has been supported for ages. Then he goes on to say Linux has support for IP masquerading, and discovering routes dynamically (I assume he's talking about gated). Certainly these are nothing new for Linux. It will give users the impression that Linux is just barely catching up.
The article is fine for what its audience is, I think. It definitely still shines some good light on Linux. But an article can be technically accurate _and_ be newbie-friendly too.
Several machines got cracked last year where I work. The admin before me (I replaced him as a full-time admin) simply didn't have the time to chase after this cracker and close up all the holes that were open. (In his defense, his job description involved very little administration.) He did keep at least some kind of sense of humor about it, though. He changed the motd to read something like,
"Ssheeesh, I just don't have the time to close all the holes you crawl in through! Okay, I throw my gloves in the ring. I concede. You are a better hacker than I am an admin. Now move on to bigger and better things so we can get on with life!"
I'm not sure what the cracker code-of-ethics says when the admin verbally concedes.:) But, in this case, the cracker defaced the motd (with a vulgar reply) and continued to wreak havoc on our systems. (The attack was definitely unprovoked. Our systems run on a small university subnet and don't have much to offer compared to larger companies' resources.)
Things have been quiet since I came along, fortunately. The powers-that-be realized that maybe they did need a full-time administrator given all the down-time caused by this cracker.
I'm a bit concerned about this, actually. Mozilla is unusable on my high-end PII. Even with lots of profiling and removing the debugging code, I'm not sure how much of an improvement they can make.
But that's Mozilla. It's my understanding that the layout engine is very fast, and I assume the gtk+ component would just wrap the layout engine and not all of Mozilla.
Does anyone know about how well GNOME works in Solaris?
I compiled GNOME on my Ultra 5 at work (Solaris 2.7) and it runs reasonably well. It feels about twice as slow as my PII at home, but the functionality is there, at least.
Slashdot Mirror
... which is why text-based applications like mutt won't go away for a long time. As long as there are people who share your sentiments (such as myself), then you'll always have choices like mutt, lynx, or even bash.
Don't feel threatened by the onslaught of GUI apps and their growing popularity. People are very interested and anxious for Nautilus, Evolution, Konqueror, KOffice, etc. The point is, in the end, we'll all have our choices. And that's a good thing.
Jason.
Consider yourself corrected. Netscape has (or will?) forked the Mozilla tree and are adding their own touches for their branded product.
...
Personally, I plan on continuing to use Mozilla
Jason.
My job is system and network administration on the campus of a local university. I would be the one to recommend to my boss about these types of policies (and ultimately I think the final say would be mine).
:)
Personally, I feel that this _is_ a matter of censorship. Furthermore, banning sites and blocking ports is a futile attempt. Students are resourceful. They will find some way around it (proxies, say), or someone else who knows. Once one student knows a way around it, the whole campus knows.
Recently our uplink set a packet filter blocking all packats to napster.com. I lobbied against this, and stressed that this wasn't a solution to the problem. Blocking content _is_ censorship. While I am sympathetic to the problem, censoring people is simply wrong. The filter was dropped a few days later; I hope my arguments had a hand in persuading them.
I currently impose bandwidth throttling on the interface that connects to our campus residence. This seems to work reasonably well and I would recommend this to any network admin over packet filtering.
Jason,
tack@linux.com
I'm eager to see what Corel's new Office suite looks like. Does anyone have any screenshots?
Jason.
It's really hard to give your servers meaningful names and still keep within a scheme, so I've more or less given up. :)
At home, my machines are named after galaxies. Right now I'm using orion (which seems to be very popular on the net), and andromeda. I mostly chose this scheme because it sounds cool. Originally I named them after planets (Jupiter One and Saturn) and each harddrive on them was mounted under names for their respective moons (atlas, titan, europa, callisto, etc.).
At work, our servers are named after birds. We're using eagle, thunderbird, raven, and falcon right now. Unfortunately, our web server is just "www" and our name server is "ns." This scheme was actually imposed not by us (the IT department) but by upper management. Our school has was founded by (and is still partially government funded by) natives, and so management wanted to retain some of that "feel." We just rolled in a new NT server who someone on staff wanted to call Phoenix. I said, "there's no way I'm going to give an NT server a cool name like Phoenix." :)
A friend of mine names all his servers after the seven dwarfs. This is probably the most interesting convention I've seen, and you can give your servers meaningful names. An NT server would be dopey. Solaris server would be grumpy. Novell server would be sneezy. Linux server would of course be Doc. :)
So, it's difficult (but probably not impossible) to come up with fun and meaningful names, but I've given up on that. Just give your servers entertaining names and don't worry about making sure they mean anything. You'll remember that foobar is your name server, and the new guy will learn that too. :)
Jason.I listen to Yanni or Delerium mostly, but I also have a large collection of that pop/dance crap we all love to hate on the radio. :)
Jason.
s/physical/datalink/g
I maintain that it is better to install isolated patches as opposed to one huge monolithic upgrade (as in service packs).
I don't mind upgrading an FTP or bind (or whatever) RPM on my servers, but I absolutely will not install an NT service pack on a production server until waiting at least a month to see what kind of problems arise. I made the horrible mistake of installing SP4 on one of our NT servers. Never again.
Jason.
It seems to me that a simple enough fix is to have a CORBA method (say, reloadMenu) in the Panel interface. You could have a simple command line utility to call this (RPMs would use this for post-install, for instance).
Jason.
I think he meant that it was backwards in that crackers are more commonly known as malicious hackers (at least as far as the media is concerned), rather than vice versa.
Jason.
"[insert fictional state where AOC is _less than or equal to_ 13]"
:)
:)
Geez, slashdot's brokenness is making me look dumb.
I'm using [amp]lt; and it's previewing fine, but it's broken once it gets posted. Moderators, do your job on this subthread.
Jason.
Anyway, my question was entirely academic, and I could have used [insert fictional state where AOC is ...
:)
That is: [insert fictional state where AOC is
*sigh* I even used < and it previewed correctly.
Jason.
Okay, I am not quite happy with the death sentence and this is probably an understatement. But now how do you know a 13 year old would know ? I guess you know all 13 years old yourself or what ?
Actually I know quite a few 13-year-olds, and even younger. And I remember quite clearly what I knew when I was 13, and also what my friends at that age knew. Simply, I've not met a 13-year-old who didn't have at least a somewhat informed idea of what sex was. I'm not saying there doesn't exist one; I'd definitely be wrong. Just as I'd be wrong in saying all 16-year-olds (which is the AOC in many states) have a clear idea of what sex is.
Don't misunderstand; we do need these laws to protect people from the real predators. But realize that these numbers _are_ arbitrary. There is no real difference between 14 and 15, or between 15 and 16, or between 12 and 13. Lawmakers have the difficult (read: impossible) task of picking an age that is acceptable to society in both a restrictive and permissive point of view. (In other words, not too young, and not too old.)
Jason.
In New Mexico the age of consent is 17, not 13.
Ahh, quite right. In particular I missed 30-9-11 F.
Anyway, my question was entirely academic, and I could have used [insert fictional state where AOC is
It's interesting and even a bit startling to note how widely the AOC varies from place to place. In Canada, where we are very Americanized, the age of consent is 14, which is much lower than most states. There is also a fairly significant philosophical implication here, as well: lawmakers pick arbitrary numbers that are used to define society's code of ethics.
Jason.
Do you honestly feel he deserves a death sentence for this?
He didn't actually have sex with a minor, so the only crime he truly did commit was possessing chld pornopgraphy. (The law may see committing and intent to commit the same [?], but I don't; his conscience may have gotten the better of him and he may have backed out at the last minute, given the chance.)
Furthermore, his sexual intentions were no secret. In otherwords, the "13-year-old" knew what she was getting into. I argue that is consent. That means the crime he intended to commit was statutory rape. If this had taken place in a state where the age of consent is 13 (New Mexico), would this still be a crime?
Clearly he committed crimes, and will be punished according to the law. But your implication that he deserves a death sentence (as is the case by letting word get out in prison) disgusts me.
Jason.
But many states (FL, NV, others) have already outlawed the production, import, and sale of such media.
It is the same here in Canada, too.
In fact, it is worse and much more twisted than that. The age of consent in Canada is 14. However, the depiction of anyone under 18 in a sexual act is considered child pornography. This means I can legally have sex with a 14-year-old, but if I write about it in my diary, I am, according to the law, in possession of child pornography.
Orwell wasn't too far off. This next step -- and it's not a very big one -- is the Thought Police. It scares the hell out of me.
Forgive the offtopicness of this post, but I couldn't resist the rant.
Cheers,
Jason.
I personally refuse to write "him/her" ever. Why? Because it restricts language.
More importantly, it is simply grammatically incorrect. Why butcher the English language for the sake of being politically correct?
Jason.
IPIP encapsulation has been supported for ages. Then he goes on to say Linux has support for IP masquerading, and discovering routes dynamically (I assume he's talking about gated). Certainly these are nothing new for Linux. It will give users the impression that Linux is just barely catching up.
The article is fine for what its audience is, I think. It definitely still shines some good light on Linux. But an article can be technically accurate _and_ be newbie-friendly too.
Jason.
Damn, svinto knocked me out of first place. :)
:)
I'm running seti@home on 35 UltraSparcs, an Enterprise 3500, and a few Pentium II's. I'm afraid to find out about svinto's configuration!
Jason.
Several machines got cracked last year where I work. The admin before me (I replaced him as a full-time admin) simply didn't have the time to chase after this cracker and close up all the holes that were open. (In his defense, his job description involved very little administration.) He did keep at least some kind of sense of humor about it, though. He changed the motd to read something like,
:) But, in this case, the cracker defaced the motd (with a vulgar reply) and continued to wreak havoc on our systems. (The attack was definitely unprovoked. Our systems run on a small university subnet and don't have much to offer compared to larger companies' resources.)
...
"Ssheeesh, I just don't have the time to close all the holes you crawl in through! Okay, I throw my gloves in the ring. I concede. You are a better hacker than I am an admin. Now move on to bigger and better things so we can get on with life!"
I'm not sure what the cracker code-of-ethics says when the admin verbally concedes.
Things have been quiet since I came along, fortunately. The powers-that-be realized that maybe they did need a full-time administrator given all the down-time caused by this cracker.
Just thought I'd share this anecdote
Jason.
What's funny is that this post is marked as flamebait, but it has a score of 2. :)
Such irony!
Jason.
I'm a bit concerned about this, actually. Mozilla is unusable on my high-end PII. Even with lots of profiling and removing the debugging code, I'm not sure how much of an improvement they can make.
But that's Mozilla. It's my understanding that the layout engine is very fast, and I assume the gtk+ component would just wrap the layout engine and not all of Mozilla.
Jason.
Or if you're stuck with a 28.8 like me, this is the low-bandwidth version of the interview.
Jason.
Does anyone know about how well GNOME works in Solaris?
I compiled GNOME on my Ultra 5 at work (Solaris 2.7) and it runs reasonably well. It feels about twice as slow as my PII at home, but the functionality is there, at least.
Jason.
He looks nothing like Yanni.
:)]
And Jamie is as good a hacker as Yanni is a musician.
Don't flame me for my musical tastes! [Yeah, like my plea is going to make any difference
Jason.